With the intense focus on alternative/renewable energy we are focusing this project
on a bio-diesel process
involving used cooking oil.

Our idea is to engineer an automated cooking oil "cracking" machine that would process
used cooking oil. We would like to
expand the project to include the use of a diesel engine and generator. We then could
produce fuel to run the engine
that would generate the electricity to heat the cooking oil to be processed. The generator
would produce more
electricity than is needed in the heating process; the extra could operate other electrical
needs. Successful completion
of this project would also generate fuel for a bio-diesel vehicle being built by another
project team in the school.